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Join Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey and contributing scholars as they discuss current research regarding health care and the impact on leadership, business, and education. This volume will continue to shape the conversation regarding the future success of the economy as part of leading the business and educational landscape as society navigates these turbulent waters. Marketing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-3ZWmeSSw CHAPTER 1 Dr. Ivan Salaberrios The Effects of Affordable Care Act on Small Businesses CHAPTER 2 Dr. Ada Crosby Lived Experiences from Nine HIV+ African Women That ...

Alycia is on the trip of a lifetime. She is deep in the rain forest of the Congo Basin, conducting field research for her doctoral thesis in Anthropology. She leads a team of fellow students and a professor. All is going well until they come across a murderous group of poachers who hold them at gunpoint, determined to torment the group of academics before leaving them for dead. Things get ugly and all appears lost, until, a mysterious bare-chested man appears, giving the poachers more than they bargained for. They say he lost someone in one of the countless American mass shootings. They say...

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that ...

Kronos is one of the last of his kind. A descendant of the Neanderthal who once thrived throughout Eurasia, his people crossed the same ancient land bridge as the original Native Americans. They have roamed Pacific Northwest forests for thousands of years, and their occasional sightings by humans have become the mythic stuff of the Bigfoot legend. One day Kronos spots a helicopter with hunters, swarming down upon a family of wolves, including his friend Lucca. Kronos runs to the scene, trying to stop the slaughter. But then, the guns of the humans turn upon him. He is wounded, cut off from ...

Ellen, a loyal and caring friend, has always been there for Laura through thick and thin. But when Ellen discovers a secret about Laura's son, she must face a difficult decision that could change their friendship forever. Or even destroy it. As their feelings intensify and their relationship becomes more complicated, Ellen must decide if she's willing to risk everything for a chance at love.

Anna Payton is a career woman, a mother, and a wife, living an ordinary existence in suburban South Florida. Then one night, during a wave of UFO sightings, she has a close encounter with something from beyond this world. Everything changes. She experiences missing time. She begins to have haunting visions of her twin sister April, a sister who tragically died in a boating accident twenty-seven years earlier at the age of thirteen.What happened to Anna during her close encounter and what does it have to do with her long dead twin sister? Anna needs to find out, no matter what the cost. As ...

Caitlin Star was once a beaten down but fiery thirteen year-old orphan trained by Gunner Star in the ways of the Bull Mongoni—a mythic species of ancient hominids. Caitlin fought in the Stadium Games and became the leader of a revolution that defeated fascism in the culture civil wars of North America in the days before the apocalypse. But those days of training, Stadium Games with fights to the death, and revolutions, were a long time ago. Now the Bull Mongoni are not mythic. They are real and living in the Congo rain forest with Caitlin and her human, chimpanzee and gorilla friends. And...

Riverboat Steam is a short story about an intense and mysterious romantic encounter aboard a riverboat cruise ship, by James J. Caterino, the author of The Girl Out of Time, My Encounter with The Partridge Family, The Green Girl, The Anti-Matter Girl, True Stories, To Meghan, and much more.

Barry McGriff is an illustrator at an ad agency. He is disrespected at work, bullied by local punks, and secretly in love with a girl at work he longs to be with. One day, he comes into possession of a mythic artifact called the Stone of Grok, and everything changes. The stone gives him physical strength and supreme confidence, allowing him to at long last pursue his dreams. But he soon learns this new power comes at a price, putting himself, and the people he cares about, in more danger than he could have ever imagined. 90s Comic Book Hero is a rousing, romantic, comedy adventure from ...

Because sometimes, we just need to cry. Make Me Cry, Please is an essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Reviews and Essays, 50 Films, My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, The Girl Out of Time, What If, The Address Book, and much more.

HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL SUSPENSE AND MYSTERY STORIES "Think Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau with Don Knotts and Tim Conway from the Apple Dumpling Gang mixing with John Travolta as Vincent Vega along with a gang of murderous otters and that’s just a portion of what you’ll find." asinine [as·i·nine] adjective 1: extremely or utterly foolish or silly 2: of, relating to, or resembling an ass Synonyms: absurd, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, feather-headed, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept,...

My Top Ten Favorite Books of All Time is and essay by James J. Caterino, the author of My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, What If, Girl Pop, Make Me Cry Please, The Girl Out of Time, Romance Stories, To Meghan, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, and much more.

On December 9th 1965 a strange, other-worldly craft crashes into a ravine in Kecksburg, a town south of Pittsburgh. It becomes known as Pennsylvania’s Roswell. The crashed UFO is witnessed by scores of local residents, including ten year-old Eliza Straight, a curious and intelligent young girl who is forever changed by the horror and wonder of what she experiences that night. On July 2nd 1993, fourteen year-old Shelly Stevens and her two friends have a close encounter with a glowing craft that descends down from the night sky, hovering above them. They awake three hours later with no ...

On March 22nd, 1976, twelve-year-old Ellie Barton and her two friends are out on the balcony of a hotel in Fort Lauderdale when they have a close encounter with something not of this world. In 2013 ace Navy fighter pilot Cole “Viper” Hanson has an aerial showdown with a group of mysterious glowing discs dubbed “Tic-tacs”. He experiences two hours of missing time and is looking for answers. In May of 2022 in Coral Springs, Florida, sixteen-year-old Ariel Odeski is out walking her dog Luna in the park one night when a magnificent, glowing disk zips down from the night sky and hovers ...

Delila is a senior at Coral Springs High School. She loves movies, writes film reviews for the school newspaper, has only two friends who are as eccentric as her, and keeps to herself. Then one night, she gets noticed by the celebrity star quarterback, and just like that, everything changes. The Geek Girl and The Quarterback is a funny, romantic, endearing, entertaining homage to 80’s teen movies and pop culture from writer James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Star, The Promise, Time Travel Stories, and The Last Neanderthal.

Ghost Stories is an epic collection of novellas and short stories featuring six spooky tales of supernatural suspense and mesmerizing horror from the prolific imagination of James J. Caterino, the author of over sixty published works including Time Travel Stories, Pop Star, The Promise, Starfighter Year 1, and The Geek Girl and The Quarterback.

California Dreaming: How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter is the entertaining and often hilarious tale of one man’s cinematic obsession and his attempt to get a movie deal done in the place where dreams are made. James J. Caterino is the author of Fantastic Films, Cult TV Shows, and Perfect Pop Songs, To Meghan, The Geek Girl and the Quarterback, and Miami Noir 1987.

Deeply personal, extremely self-indulgent book with something to offend almost everyone. Read at your own risk. You have been warned. True Stories, sort of, is an autobiographical memoir. Sort of. Each story is based on a real-life event experienced by the author. There are stories about best friends, mentors, lost loves, beloved pets, fanatical obsessions, an encounter with a Partridge Family style band, stories about being a stockbroker in the roaring 80s and 90s, pitching screenplays in Hollywood, the real story behind some of the author’s books, and even a dangerous, alcohol-fueled ...

The Case for Real Books is a short essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Did That Really Happen? (How Taylor Swift Got Me Through the Pandemic), My Encounter with the Partridge Family, Method Acting, Why I Don't Drink, Make Me Cry, Please, Alex, Jordan. Desiree, and the story behind To Meghan, To Meghan, True Stories, Girl Pop, Romance Stories, Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, Reviews and Essays, and much more.

Inspired by a real-life encounter, Believe It or Not: My Hollywood Pitch Meeting is a short story about possibilities, from James J. Caterino, the author of True Stories, My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, California Dreaming: How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter, What If, Why I Don’t Drink, and much more.